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(Reuters) – Relatives found the body yesterday of a 6-year-old Palestinian girl who had begged Gaza rescuers to send help after being trapped by Israeli military fire, along with the bodies of five of her family members and two ambulance workers who had gone to save her.

(Reuters)  Myanmar’s junta has declared mandatory military service for all young men and women, state media said on Saturday, as it struggles to contain armed rebel forces fighting for greater autonomy in various parts of the country.

DOHA/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) –  Trapped in and around Rafah, more than 1 million Palestinians braced for Israel to complete a plan to evacuate them and launch a ground assault against Hamas fighters in the southern Gaza city.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) –  Former Pakistani prime ministers and bitter rivals Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan yesterday both declared victory in elections marred by delayed results and militant attacks, throwing the country into further political turmoil.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Barclays  BARC.L, Britain’s biggest lender to the oil and gas industry, told Reuters it will stop direct financing of new oil and gas fields and restrict lending more broadly to energy companies expanding fossil fuel production.

ACCRA,  (Reuters) – A U.S. museum has returned a batch of royal regalia to Ghana that was looted by British colonial soldiers 150 years ago, marking the first major return of stolen artefacts to the West African nation.

KYIV, (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy replaced  Ukraine’s popular army chief with his ground forces commander on Thursday, a huge gamble at a time when Russian forces are gaining the upper hand nearly two years into their war.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – An “elderly” President Joe Biden will not face charges for knowingly taking classified documents when he left the vice presidency in 2017, a prosecutor said on Thursday, drawing a swift rebuke from the president as he seeks reelection.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – Malaysia’s top court yesterday declared unconstitutional more than a dozen Islamic laws enacted by the state of Kelantan, in a landmark decision that could affect similar sharia laws in other parts of the Muslim-majority country.

(Reuters) – A private passenger jet with five people aboard crash-landed on a busy Florida highway and collided with two vehicles on the ground in a fiery accident yesterday that killed two people, according to authorities and news footage from the scene.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Independents backed by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan won the most seats in Pakistan’s election today after results from over half the constituencies were announced, leaving political parties trailing.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – An “elderly” President Joe Biden will not face charges for knowingly taking classified documents when he left the vice presidency in 2017, a prosecutor said yesterday, drawing a swift rebuke from the president as he seeks reelection.

KYIV, (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy replaced Ukraine’s popular army chief with his ground forces commander yesterday, a huge gamble at a time when Russian forces are gaining the upper hand nearly two years into their war.

NORTH OF SYLINGARFELL, Iceland,  (Reuters) – A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted today for the third time since December, pumping lava up to 80 metres (260 feet) into the air and disrupting life in the Reykjanes peninsula.

DOHA/TEL AVIV, (Reuters) – Mediators from the U.S., Qatar and Egypt scrambled to forge a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in their four-month-old war in the Gaza Strip after America’s top diplomat on a Middle East mission said there was still hope for a deal.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. Senate yesterday defeated a bipartisan effort to bolster border security that had taken months to negotiate, but said they could still approve aid for Ukraine and Israel that had been tied up in the deal.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit yesterday proposed a plan to require real estate professionals to flag suspicious activity, in a bid to curb illicit funds flowing through residential real estate.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – A commander from Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed armed group in Iraq that the Pentagon has blamed for attacking its troops, was killed in a U.S.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Two explosions near electoral candidates’ offices in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan killed 26 people and wounded dozens yesterday, officials said, raising concerns over security on the eve of a general election.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip,  (Reuters) – Using two fans he picked up from a scrap market and rigged to some wires, teenager Hussam Al-Attar has created his own source of electricity to light up the tent where he and his family are living after being displaced by Israel’s assault on Gaza.